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Launching Early Childhood ExplorersM.A.R.S.
(Math, Arts, Reading & Science)
Presented By:Carrie Lynne Draper & Rudo KashiriReadiness Learning Associates, Pasadena, CA & Virginia Beach, VAStuart Scolnik, New Roads School, Santa Monica, CA
www.readinesslearning.net
626-602-4444
Agenda for This Session
1. Lessons Learned from ECSTEM 2014
2. Why M.A.R.S.? Making Curricular Connections
3. Tools for M.A.R.S.
4. Resources, Q & A and Closing
Jump Start to Childrens’ Engineering
Focus on the E in STEMECSTEM 2014
Pocket Full of Seeds: Growing Confident Problem Solvers
LAST YEAR HERE AT ECSTEM
Designing the best solution!
Testing, Reconsidering & Redesigning
Engineering Encounters!
Children are born to ‘engineer’’
• Children have the capacity to engage in scientific practices and develop understanding at a conceptual level
• Young children need multiple and varied opportunities to engage in science exploration and discovery (NAEYC 2013)
• Young children develop science skills and learning by engaging in experiential learning
• Educating all students in science and engineering
• Providing the foundational knowledge for those who will become the scientists, engineers, technologists, and technicians of the future.
Skills Students Most Need for STEM in the 21st Century & Beyond
• Communicate Clearly and Persuasively and explain phenomena when designing solutions to problems
• Read in order to obtain scientific/technical information
• Create diagrams, models to support a scientific or engineering idea
• Integrate qualitative/quantitative scientific and/or technical information
• Know how to use a variety of tools
• Be stewards of resources with the ability to conserve and sustain
National Research Council, How Children Learn
Students come to the classroom with preconceptions about how the world works.
To develop competence in an area of inquiry, students must have:
*deep foundation of factual knowledge*understand facts and ideas in context of a framework*organize knowledge in ways that facilitate application*bank a memory of errors
A ‘metacognitive’ approach to instruction helps students learn to take control of their learning
Math lines, space, angles, patterns……
Arts lines, space, angles, patterns….
Reading lines, space, patterns….
Science lines, space, patterns…..
According to Nora
“The act of studying a painting, creating art, equips students to become better perceivers of scenarios”…..
Nita Charon, PhD, MD, Chair, Narrative Medicine Program,Columbia University School of Medicine
Let’s Go!● Spaceships take 9 months (180 days) to get to
Mars.
● What will you need while you travel to Mars?
Outline● Our home planet
● Where are we in the soar system?
● Comparison Earth, Moon and Mars
● Mars
How big is mars?
How do we get there?
How do we land
Can we live on Mars?
● How does NASA Study planets- Mars
STEM Lesson Plans: Inquiry-based
● Conceptual Modeling
● Engineering
● How We Explore
● Scientific Research
Earth, Moon and Mars Balloons
To model the Earth, Earth’s Moon, and Mars system
● Prediction
● Circumference
● Concept of models
Conceptual Modeling
Solar System Scale & Size
To model the relative size and distance of the solar system
● Scale and distance
Conceptual Modeling
Going to MarsEngineering a rocket
● The best nose cone length and predicting the motion of the model
● Tests
● Research
● Collecting and analyzing data
Engineering
Rocket FuelKey Words
● rocketry
● launch
● pressure
● For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.
Engineering
Mystery Planet● Explore a Model Planet to Discover
New Features
● Explore crustal samples from a “Mystery” planet.
● Sorting/classification
STEM Lessons: How We Explore
How Do We Survive There?Developing a Community
● Reflect on Your Community
● Constructing Your Sustainable Communities on Mars
Lava Layering● Sequence Lava Flow Events
using Drill Cores and Cuts
● Create models of volcanic lava flows and analyze the layers
How We Explore
JPL Resources● Cool Things About Mars
● Cool Things About the Mission
● Cool Things About the Curiosity Rover
NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity
● Is Mars Really Red?
● How Do You Get to Mars?
● How Do You Land on Mars?
● How Hard Is It to Land Curiosity on Mars?
● Phoning Home: Communicating from Mars
MAVEN EducationRed Planet: Read, Write, Explore!
● Incorporates science into elementary school literacy activities.
● Flexible, standards-based curriculum uses literacy, art, and creative expression as a vehicle for the topic of Mars exploration.
● Teacher professional development nationally beginning in 2013.
● A Quick Trip to Mars
● Atmospheric Pressure on Mars
● Surviving and Thriving on Mars
Why ● The Discovery Center is a place where students can
challenge themselves. The benefits of this type of project based learning are clearly evident in the students enthusiasm, and their demonstrated understanding of science standards